Video card memory being displayed incorrectly *Screen Shots*

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koolzero · #1 Post by **koolzero** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:59 am

We have several hundred T43P type: 2668 G2U laptops that were supposedly all ordered with identical hardware. I was working on one yesterday and noticed that the video card memory that was being displayed is different than mine.

I checked another laptop for kicks and it displayed a different amount of memory. So I'm wondering is the quality control bad at IBM or is this number not very accurate?

bfgun · #2 Post by **bfgun** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:43 am

wow, i've yet to see a laptop with 384 megs of ram on a laptop.

Did you check the bios and see what shows up in there?

-B

DIGITALgimpus · #3 Post by **DIGITALgimpus** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:01 am

It's allegedly ATI's HyperMemory, which uses system memory for additional video memory. Enabled in more recent BIOS upgrades.

koolzero · #4 Post by **koolzero** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:45 am

Is this not something that you can enable or disable in the bios?

bfgun · #5 Post by **bfgun** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 9:53 am

did you look?

fire one up, look at the video settings.

the thinkpad bios isnt that complex as opposed to one for a desktop/tower.

Milos · #6 Post by **Milos** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:04 am

koolzero wrote:We have several hundred T43P type: 2668 G2U laptops that were supposedly all ordered with identical hardware. I was working on one yesterday and noticed that the video card memory that was being displayed is different than mine.

I checked another laptop for kicks and it displayed a different amount of memory. So I'm wondering is the quality control bad at IBM or is this number not very accurate?

I don't know if it's related but I have an A31 (with an ATI Mob Radeon 7500/32MB) and the video memory in the same control panel that you show is sometimes reported as 16MB and sometimes as 32MB in the *same* machine. In my case I think my ATI chip is going (has other problems), but I guess it's possible that the control panel doesn't report this properly.. anyone else see this?

Milos

koolzero · #7 Post by **koolzero** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:30 am

I checked the IBM bios under config and display and the options there are:

Default primary video device PCI
boot display device VGA+LCD
HV expansion ON
Brightness Normal

This bios version is 1.22 and it's displaying the video memory as 128MBs.

My computer has a 1.25 bios but it has the same options as here in the bios however it's displaying memory as 256MBs

And finally the one that is displaying as 384MBs is a 1.26 Bios, and I have not seen it's bios properties yet.

koolzero · #8 Post by **koolzero** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:31 am

I checked the IBM bios under config and display and the options there are:

Default primary video device PCI
boot display device VGA+LCD
HV expansion ON
Brightness Normal

This bios version is 1.22 and it's displaying the video memory as 128MBs.

My computer has a 1.25 bios but it has the same options as here in the bios is displaying memory as 256MBs

And finally the one that is displaying as 384MBs is a 1.26 Bios, and I have not seen it's bios properties yet.

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